DAVID FOSTER WALLACE: THE LAST INTERVIEW

and other Conversations

“Melville House has a habit of publishing volumes like this. Volumes worth owning … as much for the sharp design and compact sturdiness of the object as for the relevant wisdom and delights of the text inside.” —The Austin Chronicle

In intimate and eloquent interviews, including the last he gave before his suicide, the writer hailed by A.O. Scott of The New York Times as “the best mind of his generation” considers the state of modern America, entertainment and discipline, adulthood, literature, and his own inimitable writing style. The volume includes among others interviews with Laura Miller, Dave Eggers, and the student magazine of Wallace’s own alma mater, Amherst.

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE was an award-winning American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California. He is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest.

“A prose magician … He could map the infinite and infinitesimal, the mythic and mundane.” – Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

”The literary world has produced few figures more flamboyantly talented and prophetically dialed in to the compulsions and concerns that keep us up late at night than David Foster Wallace. This compact volume promises to shed light on Wallace’s scope of influence on his peers and his state of mind in the months before he died.” —The Biographile